Elijah's Story
Birth: November 8th, 1846 | male | in Indian Territory, USA
Death: July 15th, 1847 | Infant | along the Mormon Trail, USA
Memorial: Stone 1
Elijah H. Shockley was the youngest of seven children born to Elijah Shockley and Mary Lowery. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they family joined the Abraham Smoot/Samuel Russell Company of 1847 to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the pioneers. Baby Elijah died from undocumented causes and was buried along the Mormon Trail